Aden

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: A woman has been raped at knifepoint in a London park by an Afghan migrant

The UK is going through a migrant rape epidemic

Andy Burnham does nothing to stop it

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The total number of millionaires in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis

There were 442,000 millionaires in 2025, down from over 1m in 2021

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

If you ever wanted a policy to encourage even more illegal migration then I’m pretty sure “try and get into our country and if your claim for asylum is denied we will give you £40,000 to leave” would be it.

Labour is destroying our country.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

This graph should hang from the wall of every newsroom in the UK, to remind journalists of how they have wilfully ignored the correlation between immigration and the cost of homes.

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

95% of sales volume was what

[Karl Williams @MalvernianKarl]

New ONS migration data has British nationals broken down by age band for the first time. Around 53% of the net outflow is aged 16-24, and 46% aged 25-34. Goodbye, Nick (30)...

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Dear young, ambitious Brits,

If the UK government introduces an exit tax I would HIGHLY recommend you leave the UK to build your wealth elsewhere.

We live in a global economy and your best opportunities will probably take you far and wide. There will come a time when it makes sense to do a few years in the USA, you might want to head to the fast-growing UAE or have a chapter in Singapore. Life will dish out many opportunities that involve moving elsewhere for a time.

A wealth tax will pin you down. Imagine you launch and build a company in London, you raise £2M from investors at a £20M valuation, you then grow the business and on paper it’s worth £50M. If you then want to leave, the government will shake you down for 20% of your equity valuation before you can go.

Imagine you make great choices and sacrifices for your career, you start earning serious income and you buy a family home. Then you get an irresistible offer to work in Sydney. Now you have to pay exit taxes on the value of your home.

It’s not worth the risk. Not when the UK is such a small part of the global economy and not when the UK economy isn’t even growing faster than inflation.

You would be better to leave now while you have nothing, build abroad and then return home if and when it makes sense.

Right now every country is making a choice as to how they want to treat talented, successful and wealthy people. Some countries are saying they want to attract these types of people and some countries are saying they want to punish these types of people. Sadly the UK is heading towards the latter.

This isn’t your fault and it isn’t your responsibility to fix an incompetent government with an out of control spending problem. It’s your responsibility to make the most of your skills and ambition and go where the opportunities take you.

Explore your options and if a wealth tax is introduced, be sure to take that as a sign that your government is hostile towards your full potential and success.

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

This genuinely could be what collapses the UK.
She puts up tax and revenues actually go DOWN.
Then the whole premise on which the gov borrows goes to shit, bonds go unsold and the state can't pay its bills.
Police/Nurses/Pensions etc unpaid - bedlam ensues.

[Tom McPhail @PensionsMonkey]

Chancellor’s speech paraphrased for anyone who missed it: “Everything we did last year hasn’t worked; we promised we wouldn’t have to ask for more money but we were wrong. We will be asking for more money and NONE of this is our fault. You’re all VERY lucky we’re in charge.”

[CJ @UnderSneege]

The budget is going to be absolutely horrific. £15BN asylum costs and Boriswave ILR eligibility for benefits about to start kicking in. Globally mobile professional class leaving the country. Employment rights and renters bill playing havoc at the entry end of the market

The Boriswave ILR thing isn’t even the fault or ill intent of the people themselves. The government brought them in as low wage workers, relaxed the rules on dependents, and so the massive cost is just the result of that colliding with the existing stupidest redistributive welfare system ever invented

Net zero costs and terrible (seemingly) uncontrollable regulatory burdens everywhere.

Just going to an unbelievable rubbish few years if you’re a tax payer.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

If you tax something too much, people alter their behaviour because the incentives have changed.

If you tax people who work and give money to people who don’t work then it’s obvious that less people will work and more people won’t work. That is the incentive structure.

If you make something more expensive fewer people will buy it.

If you make it expensive to earn over £100K, then fewer people will bother doing it. If you make it more expensive to hire people, fewer companies will be hiring.

If a nation taxes wealth, it will have a less wealthy nation.

This is summed up in the Laffer Curve (below) - the economic principle that at a certain point, higher taxes reduces the overall taxes collected. There are 4 principles that economists have learned about when to raise taxes or not to:

1. If a country has relatively low taxes, raising taxes will likely result in collecting more.

2. If a country already has high taxes, raising taxes will likely result in raising LESS.

3. If a country has a wide tax base, raising taxes will likely result in collecting more.

4. If a country has a narrow tax base, raising taxes will likely result in collecting less.

The UK currently has high taxes on a narrow tax base (of very mobile people) so the established economic theory says that when Rachel Reeves raises taxes in her next budget, it will actually do more harm than good - less will be collected.

It seems counter intuitive but LOWERING taxes has a higher chance of collecting more money.

Anyone who runs a business knows this. There comes a point where if you put your prices up and a few clients leave you can crash your business. If you can find a way to reduce your prices, your total revenue will grow.

Walmart, McDonald’s, Amazon and Toyota became dominant because they were committed to keeping prices down not putting them up. They understood the Laffer Curve but it would seem that the UK needs to learn this lesson through painful experience every 50 years or so.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: A man sent back to France under the “one in, one out” scheme has returned to the UK on a small boat

[@guardian]

[LBC @LBC]

‘Don’t worry, if you decide to live on benefits you get a 4% increase … how does that make sense?!’

@NickFerrariLBC is baffled by Chancellor Rachel Reeves' handling of the UK economy.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The UK now has the highest figure of rapes in Europe.

The UK recorded 71,227 last year, a nearly ninefold increase from 7,801 in 2000.

The rape rate has reached 114 per 100,000 people surpassing Sweden's for the first time.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

The UK has 11M people who are working age but don’t work. We have just over 32M actual workers. That means 25% of working age people aren’t working!

Every single day 1000 people sign onto benefits claiming to be too sick to work. After WW2 a total of 2% of the population were deemed too sick to work - people who had PTSD from the front lines worked and people who had lost limbs worked.

How is a country meant to function when it has 65M people but only 32M workers and 11M working age people collecting benefits from the state? How long can that last?

[Jeremy Trimble @jeremytrimble]

I didn’t start doing physics until I was 33 and now I work on a cutting edge research project at one of the top labs in the world. You can just do things

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

Tax the rich more, they say

Well did you know that a £150,000 earner pays £53,460 in income tax alone

But a £25,000 earner pays just £2,486

How is this fair?

And why are we attacking those high earners and forcing them out of the country?

It takes more than 20 low rate taxpayers to pay the same as one person who earns £150,000

It’s these higher earner who generate nearly all the tax revenue to fund the NHS, the police, transport & public services

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Made them say my name 🤣🤣

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A think tank report has found that if 800,000 of the migrants who came to the UK between 2021 and 2024 settled here permanently then it could cost taxpayers nearly £250bn

[@Telegraph]

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - Local authorities in the UK have spent £141 million of taxpayer money on services for migrants such as PlayStations, yoga and circus skills classes, driving and DJ lessons — Telegraph